First Periodical Test in English III

I. Directions. Encircle the best answer from the given choices.

1. What is TRUE about fable?a. Fable is a literary piece that teaches lesson.b. Fable is a short tale that features human qualities and leads to a lesson.c. Fable is a fictional story that features animals, mythical creatures,

plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are given human qualities.

d. Fable is a fictional story that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are given human qualities and leads to a lesson.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson is known for his famous line “Trust Thyself”. What does it mean?a. Trust yourself and you will become a leader. b. Trust yourself and you will be strong.c. Trust yourself and you will be wealthy. d. Trust yourself and you will be famous.

3. When I told my mom I would be home around two in the morning, she had a cow!What is the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expression?a. My mom bought a baby cow. c. My mom was really upset.b. My mom was really strange. d. My mom was really angry.

4. Complete the idiomatic expression: If you begin to draw conclusions about something, you put two and ___ together.a. One c. threeb. Two d. four

5. If you hit the nail on the head it means_________a. You are absolutely right. c. You have control of the situationb. You need to memorize it. d. You don’t agree to each other.

6. What is NOT true about direct speech?a. Direct speech is a reported speech.b. Direct speech is enclosed in quotation marks.c. Direct speech is phrased by the original speaker.d. Direct speech is a quoted speech.

7. How will you change the following direct speech to indirect speech:Tom said, “I want to visit my friends this weekend.” a. Tom said he wants to visit his friends that weekend.b. Tom said he wanted to visit his friends that weekend.c. Tom said he wants to visit his friends this weekend.d. Tom said he wanted to visit his friends this weekend.

8. Which of the following sentences is a poorly constructed direct speech?

a. Sarah said, "My family and I are going to the flea market today." b. Nabilah asked, "Can I go with Sarah to the flea market today?"

c. Charlotte said, "I dont want to go to the flea market today."

d. Chloe said, "what is the flea market?"

9. What punctuation mark needs to be added to the following sentence in DIRECT speech:

James asked "Are you coming to my house today?"

a. . b. : c. ! d. ,

10. How will you change the following direct speech to indirect speech?

Mary asks, "Are you ok, Harry?"

a. Mary asked if harry was ok? b. Mary asks if Harry was ok. c. Mary asks Harry if he was ok. d. Mary told Harry he was ok.